Sponsor a Child

Your gift of $35 each month will bring hope and change to a sponsored child's life and community. Through your sponsorship, you'll help Food for the Hungry assist your child's entire community to provide food, a better education, clean water and medical treatment to its children.

Meet Carsten Salif

Age:

10 | Male

Location:

Peru

Birthday:

October 03, 2005

Favorite activity:

Sports

Favorite school subject:

Mathematics

Child ID:

6043680088

Meet Carsten Salif. In Peru, Carsten Salif would not have opportunities for education, clean water, stable food and access to medical help. For $35, you'll be helping us to work in Carsten Salif's community to provide these basic necessities. Carsten Salif needs your support, prayers and relationship. Become Carsten Salif's sponsor today.

Livelihood

Education

Health

Disasters

Gender

Age

Country

Mupenzi

Robertina

Danabe

Halima

Soilina

Mayi

Subarna

Miguel

Irakoze

Sosimo

Karima

Asik

Why Child Sponsorship With Food For The Hungry?

When you sponsor a child through Food for the Hungry, you join FH in walking with that child—along with the child’s family and community—as they move from struggling to thriving. Through consistent monthly support, letters and prayers—you and your sponsored child build a relationship that makes a lasting difference.

Your Child Is Blessed With:

Improved nutrition

Access to clean water to drink

A poverty-busting education

Life-changing training for parents on how to care for their children

Community projects to create a safe environment where children thrive

The knowledge that someone loves them and wants them to succeed

Hope for a better life

You're Blessed With:

The knowledge that YOU stepped in to help end poverty in the life of a child

The opportunity to communicate directly with the child you sponsor

Updated photos of the child and prayer requests from the community

Important reports of progress in the country where your sponsored child lives

Livelihood

A livelihood is your way of earning enough to feed and provide for your family. At Food for the Hungry (FH), we consider a vulnerable family’s livelihood sustainable when it reduces the family’s risk of losing everything from droughts, disasters or other unexpected events. We help families and communities diversify food resources and ways to make an income. We do this by helping improve agriculture, livestock, natural resource management and income generation.

Most people in developing countries rely on their own farming to provide food and an income. FH helps farmers learn how to use drought resistant seeds, build and use better crop storage facilities, combine farming efforts as a community, plant cash crops, and learn to process crops to sell in various local and national markets. FH works with communities to model farming methods that protect the environment and improve natural resources such as forests, rangelands and clean water sources. Animals also can be a source of both food and income. FH helps communities identify and use stronger breeds of cattle and goats and practice improved communal rangeland management.

To also help families create an income, FH trains them in savings groups to provide vital financial services. A group of 10-30 members pool their savings together and, from their savings, the group is able to give out small short-term loans to members. These loans can be used for household and business needs. At the end of the year, each member receives their savings plus a portion of the interest made on the group loans. The groups, which are like very small informal credit unions, also provide important support through the relationships and trust built as a group.

Education

Educated children journey through life with more resources to leave poverty behind. Food for the Hungry works with parents, schools and children to create effective education systems. Through teacher trainings, building schools and school rooms, improving health and sanitation, gaining parent support and other efforts - children learn to stay in school.

To improve education and school performance, FH trains teachers to help them manage large classrooms and create effective curriculum. In impoverished communities, many classrooms are overcrowded or are outdoors. FH organizes communities to build classrooms and schools, so children have an adequate environment to concentrate. Children are also taught to wash hands, receive deworming medicine and use latrines to improve their health and increase school attendance.

Often, in impoverished communities, children are needed to do farm work or other household chores. FH staff build relationships with parents and help them to understand the importance and usefulness of education. Children are also helped through tutorials and programs to boost their academic performance. FH also helps student access secondary education, vocational school and college so they can pursue their professional dreams.

Health

In helping communities to be healthy, Food for the Hungry focuses on helping vulnerable children and creating changes in simple behaviors, such as hand washing to decrease illness. One of the ways FH teaches communities is through care groups.

FH staff teach mothers healthy practices in caring for their children, such as proper nutrition and how to identify and treat illnesses. Through the care groups, one FH staff teaches a group of ten to 15 women. These women become leaders in their community and pass on life-saving information to other mothers throughout the community. Through care groups in Mozambique, child mortality was reduced by 62 percent.

Through care groups, women and men are taught they are created in God’s image. They are also taught to be agents of change and leaders. This helps communities to take responsibility to learn and practice healthy habits, creating change that lasts.

Other Food for the Hungry health programs include medical clinics, HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, school health education programs, feeding programs, providing deworming medicine, and other support efforts to help children and adults survive and have improved health.

Disaster Risk Reduction

In poor communities, vulnerable people are located in areas that experience drought, flooding, hurricanes, mudslides and earthquakes. Food for the Hungry (FH) works to help poor communities through Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) plans. The DRR plan includes prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and worldview.

In prevention efforts, FH recognizes practices in a community that contribute to disaster effects, such as removing plants or trees near rivers or on mountains. The removal of plants can contribute to flooding or soil erosion during mudslides. For mitigation efforts, FH helps communities to survive disasters, such as teaching farmers how to plant crops resistant to drought.

FH’s goal is to have every community where we work eventually have a committee that develops and oversees the implementation of their DRR plan. Communities practice responses such as evacuation plans, search and rescue techniques and first aid. In response training, communities learn and practice how to be the first responders when a disaster occurs.

Many cultures believe disasters occur as punishment to people. FH helps communities replace a fatalistic worldview with a more biblical worldview. God also tells His people to prepare for disasters. Examples include Joseph directing the Egyptians to save grain in preparation for a famine.